Saturday, September 7, 2013

Sue's Saturday Suggestions #64

Eve has
a new home, a new face, and a new name—but no memories of her past. She’s been
told that she's in a witness protection program. That she escaped a dangerous
magic-wielding serial killer who still hunts her. The only thing she knows for
sure is that there is something horrifying in her memories the people hiding
her want to access—and there is nothing they won’t say—or do—to her to get her
to remember.

At night she dreams of a tattered carnival tent and buttons
being sewn into her skin. But during the day, she shelves books at the local
library, trying to not let anyone know that she can do things—things like
change the color of her eyes or walk through walls. When she does use her
strange powers, she blacks out and is drawn into terrifying visions, returning
to find that days or weeks have passed—and she’s lost all short-term memories.
Eve must find out who and what she really is before the killer finds her—but
the truth may be more dangerous than anyone could have ever imagined.

Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken,
nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is
falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more
and more into waking life. Meanwhile, some very sinister people are looking for
some of the same pieces of the Cabeswater puzzle that Gansey is after...

The
Shattered Pillars is
the second book of Bear’s The Eternal Sky trilogy and the sequel to
Range of Ghosts. Set in a world drawn from our own great Asian Steppes,
this saga of magic, politics and war sets Re-Temur, the exiled heir to the
great Khagan and his friend Sarmarkar, a Wizard of Tsarepheth, against dark
forces determined to conquer all the great Empires along the Celedon Road.

Elizabeth Bear is an astonishing writer, whose prose draws you
into strange and wonderful worlds, and makes you care deeply about the people
and the stories she tells.

Sue’s Note: Range
of Ghosts was one of my favorite reads last year, so I am eager to devour
the next installment of the trilogy.

I have
listed these titles in earlier SSS posts: check out my SSS
Books Page for links to more reviews: